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OCTOBER 2011
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Recipes from our Readers!
Zucchini Bread
No Name Given!
3 tsp. cinnamon
3 eggs
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup oil
2 tbsp. vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 cups grated zucchini
Beat eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla.
Add zucchini and nuts. Add spices
and baking powder. Fold in flour
one cup at a time. Bake in two loaf
pans at 350° for 50-60 minutes.
Cranberry Salad
Betty Brandenburg, Winchester
1 3-oz. box each, orange and
cherry jello
1 tablespoon gelatin
1 lb. cranberries
2 oranges, peeled
1 cup diced celery
½ cup chopped walnuts
1-½ cups sugar, or to suit taste
Take cranberries and oranges and
put through grinder. Sugar cranberries.
Dissolve orange and cherry
jello in about 3 cups water. Add
gelatin which has dissolved in a
little cold water. Allow to set before
adding cranberries, oranges, diced
celery and chopped nuts.
(This is a great salad to serve at
Thanksgiving and Christmas)
Zucchini Squash Bread
Pauline Townsend, Irvine
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
3 eggs
2 cups grated raw zucchini
3 cups flour sifted with:
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
3 tsp. cinnamon
½ cup chopped nuts
Mix in order given. Pour into two
greased loaf pans and bake at
350° for 45 minutes.
Pumpkin Pie
Tina Elkins, Jeffersonville, KY
3 eggs (save 1 egg white)
½ cup sugar
¾ cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
⅛ teaspoon allspice
⅛ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon flour
⅛ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons pumpkin
2 cups milk, heated
Mix eggs and sugar. Blend well and
and fold in last. More pumpkin can
be used if desired. Bake at 425°
for 15 minutes, then at 350° for 45
minutes.
Gran’s Dumplings
Karen Cochran, Richmond
1 cup self-rising flour
1 cup plain flour
1 eggs
½ tsp. salt.
Mix together with enough cooled
chicken broth to make a dough.
Turn out on floured surface and cut
thin in small squares and drop into
boiling broth that has been salted.
Add bouillon cubes to broth if it
isn’t flavored enough. This makes a
huge pot of dumplings.
Sweet Potato
Casserole
Michelle Turpin, Irvine
3 cups mashed sweet potatoes
1 cup sugar
½ cup milk
1/3 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs, slightly beaten
Topping:
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
½ cup melted butter
½ cup plain flour
Cream together potatoes, sugar,
milk, butter, vanilla and eggs. Put
in baking dish. Mix the topping mixture
and spread on top of potatoes.
Bake 350° for 35 minutes.
Pumpkin Pie
Wanda Walling, Irvine
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 can (16 oz.) pumpkin (solid
packed)
¾ cup sugar
½ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ginger
¼ tsp cloves
1-½ cup milk (evaporated)
1 deep pie crust shell
Pre-heat oven and cookie sheet to
375°. Remove one crust shell from
freezer. Combine filling ingredients
in this order:
eggs, pumpkin, sugar, salt,
cinnamon, ginger, cloves and
evaporated milk. Place pie shell on
pre-heated cookie sheet, pour filling
into shell. Bake on pre-heated
cookie sheet for approximately 70
minutes or until knife inserted in
center comes out clean.
Apple Crisp
Mary Stamper, Irvine
6 cups apples (sliced)
½ cup water
2 tsp lemon juice
½ cup granulated sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
½ cup butter
Arrange apples in well greased 2
quart casserole dish. Sprinkle with
water and lemon juice. Mix flour,
sugars and cinnamon and mix well.
Cut in butter until mixture is course.
Spoon crumb mixture evenly
over apples. Bake 375° for 40-50
minutes.
Boston Market Sweet
Potato Casserole
Frances Hall, Irvine
3 large sweet potatoes
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
½ cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
Crunch Topping:
1/3 cup melted butter
1/3 cup flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
1 tbsp cinnamon
Boil potatoes until tender. Remove
skins when cooled. Put into a large
bowl and whip them until fluffy. Add
remaining ingredients. Pour into a
greased casserole and top with the
Crunch Topping. Bake at 350° F for
45 minutes.
Angel Biscuits
Audrey Adams, Irvine
½ pint carton of whipping cream
1-½ to 2 cups self rising flour
Mix together whipping cream
and flour, then mix flour with fork.
Spoon out on a pan sprayed with
Pam. Bake at 350° for 15 to 20
minutes.
Candied Sweet
Potatoes
Faye Bunch, Irvine
Sweet Potatoes
Brown Sugar, to taste
1 tbsp margarine.
Peel and slice sweet potatoes. Boil
until just tender. Drain. Put in a
baking dish. Add brown sugar and
margarine. Bake at 350° until done.
Pumpkin Bars with
Cream Cheese Frosting
Wanda Whisman, Rogers
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
1 can (15 ounces) pumpkin
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon*
½ teaspoon ginger*
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg*
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
½ cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
2-¼ cups powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 350°F. Combine
first four ingredients in a large bowl.
Using a wire whisk, mix together
flour, baking powder, baking soda,
salt and spices; add to pumpkin
mixture and mix well. Pour into
greased and floured jelly roll pan.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Cool.
Beat together the cream cheese,
butter and vanilla extract, gradually
add powdered sugar. Frost cooled
cake. Cut into bars.
*May substitute all these ingredients
with 1 tablespoon and ½
teaspoon pumpkin pie spice.
Sweet Potatoes
Sarah Watkins, Winchester
3 cups mashed sweet potatoes
2 lg. eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
½ cup flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
1-½ sticks margarine
½ cup milk
½ cup pecans, chopped
Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix sweet
potatoes, sugar, eggs, 1 stick of
margarine, vanilla and milk in a
bowl. Pour the mixture into a buttered
casserole dish. Mix the flour,
pecans, brown sugar and remaining
½ stick margarine in a bowl.
Sprinkle this mixture over top of the
sweet potato mixture. Bake at 350°
for 35 minutes
Pumpkin Cake
Joyce Willadean Keating, Stanton
Sift together:
1 tsp. salt
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
Beat 4 eggs and 2 cups sugar; add
1 cup cooking oil; beat again. Add
flour mixture, beat again. Add 2
cups pumpkin and beat again. Put
in 9x13 baking pan. Bake at 350°
until done. Cool and spread with
Butter Cream Frosting
Butter Cream Frosting:
¼ cup soft butter
2 cups confectioner’s sugar
1 dash salt
2 tbsp. cream
1 tsp. vanilla
6 oz. chopped pecans, optional
Beat all ingredients at low speed
until blended. Then beat at high
speed until smooth and creamy.
If too thick to spread, add a little
more cream.
Many thanks to our readers
for sending in their recipes!
How about sending in a few
Favorite Pieces of Advice ...
This is a tribute to a school
teacher, Mr. R.C. Flynn, that I
had in grade school four out of
eight years. Mr. Flynn went
beyond the prescribed lesson
in the textbooks.
I vividly remember one
particular day he laid some
books on the floor in the
doorway. He rang the bell
to call us in when recess
was over. As he probably
expected, not a one
of us noticed the books
as we scrambled thru the
doorway, walking over
the books. He probably
lectured twenty or thirty
minutes on the value of
noticing things out of place
and picking them up. He
stressed the courtesy it
showed if we returned the
items to the owner. This is
one of the many lessons I
remember that he taught
us.
Fred Brown
Irvine, Kentucky
My grandmother told me
to live for today and don’t
worry about tomorrow
because each day we have
is precious to us.
Louise Hardy
Irvine, Kentucky
My favorite piece of advice
by an elder would be to ‘always
be honest and show
respect to anybody in the
world.’ Given to me by my
granny.
Timara Crabtree
Stanton, Kentucky
Best piece of advice came
from my husband’s grandmother,
Sarah Carroll - “A
good run beats a bad stand
anyway.”
Ruth Harrison
Irvine, Kentucky
My favorite advice from
an elder is ‘early to bed,
early to rise makes a man
healthy, wealthy and wise.’
Thank you for showing my
home school group your
animals at the AlpacaBerry
Farm. It was very fun.
Jacob Harris
My grandfather always
said “Pretty is as pretty
does.” Wouldn’t it be great
if the whole world acted
“pretty”!
Terry Williams
Irvine, Kentucky
I love your magazine! I
enjoy all the great advice
about planting and the
information about animals
and critters! The best
advice I ever had was from
a wonderful lady I worked
with in Berea at a daycare I
ran. She said, “Don’t sweat
the small stuff, it’s a long
walk back to Eden!” I’ve
tried really hard to take
that advice! Keep up the
great work. Lonna Newman
Irvine, Kentucky
Thank you for showing us
your animals. It was nice of
you. The alpaca fleece was
very soft. Thank you.
Your friend, Leslie Harris
Irvine, Kentucky
Favorite piece of advice:
True love lies in your heart,
but everlasting happiness
lies in the Lord. Volina Ervin
Ravenna, Kentucky
Hi, Abby’s little paw is on
page 5, on the scarecrow’s
hat. I love looking for it every
month. Your magazine
is great and you have a lot
of neat things each month. I
look forward to getting the
new one. Keep up the good
work. My grandmother
told me to never tell a lie. If
you tell one it takes twenty
to get out of that one. Always
tell the truth.
Joan Richardson
Ravenna, Kentucky
My mom had seven
children and always said
to pick your battles for
the important things only
mattered. If it was going to
be remembered in 5 or 10
years don’t fight over it! I
used that advice in raising
my three children.
Mary Stewart
The best advice from an
elder: You better learn how
to can your own food like
green beans, kraut, corn,
etc. …. learn to tend a garden,
because the time is going
to come when you will
have to do all these things
just to survive. Because
times are getting tougher
and a lot of these younger
people/city folks don’t
have a clue how to do these
things. And one day it will
come to thank.
Jessica Holbrook
Olive Hill, Kentucky
My best advice from an elder
when I was young was
“Save for a rainy day.”
Stan Rosania
Irvine, Kentucky
Favorite piece of advice:
You will never know happiness
if you marry an
unbeliever.
Jean Bowen
Stanton, Kentucky
My advice was when my
Granmother Couch took
a “limb” or “switch” and
whipped my legs all the
way home “for picking up
a cigarette after another
grownup.” I never smoked
any more after that, I am
55 years old. I think the
people make a mistake
of “not spanking” kids.
That ‘time-out’ just did not
work. Most adult people in
their late 20s and 30s are on
drugs or passed away.
Faye Warfield
Stanton, Kentucky
My favorite advice given to
me by an elder is “Don’t go
snooping for things or they
will disappear.” Ethan Lynch
Irvine, Kentucky
Advice from Grandma: If
you ain’t got it, make due
with what you got.
Verena Swindler
Irvine, Kentucky
In kindergarten, our
teacher presented our class
with two boxes. One was
wrapping paper. The other
was larger, neatly wrapped
with pretty paper and even
a bow. She asked us which
package we would choose,
then revealed what was inside.
The big box with the
almost perfect exterior had
a stinky bag of onions inside.
The tiny box with the
wrinkled paper …. well, it
had something beautiful
and valuable inside. The
details may be a little fuzzy,
but the lesson has been one
that I have carried with me:
It’s what is on the inside
that counts. I have people
like Mrs. Brinegar, my
Mamawie and Mom who
often reminded me that
“pretty is as pretty does”
and “don’t judge a book by
it’s cover” to thank for this
valuable lesson. I hate to
think of all of the friendships
I would have missed
out on had I not made
this one of my personal
“rules.” I sometimes have
to remind myself of this
and have taught my own
child. I’m pretty positive
he has learned the meaning
and someday will teach
his own children. But you,
you have a choice. Do you
want to be the person who
settles for stinky onions
just because it looks good?
Nivra Lainhart
Irvine, Kentucky
Did You Know?
‘Stewardesses’ is the longest
word typed with only the left hand
And ‘lollipop’ is the longest word
typed with your right hand. (Bet
you tried this out mentally, didn’t
you?)
There are two words in the English
language that have all five
vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and
‘facetious.’ (Yes, admit it, you are
going to say, a e i o u)
TYPEWRITER is the longest
word that can be made using
the letters only on one row of
the keyboard. (All you typists are
going to test this out)
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for
1/100th of a second
Now you know more than you did
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Favorite Candy recipes?
Irvine, Kentucky
Kalamazoo, MI tiny, with wrinkled plain
30 Add heated milk. Beat egg white ½ cup brown sugar
½ teaspoon ground cloves*
before!!
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OCTOBER 2011
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